has others do it for him. 1936, George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant: In a job like that you see the dirty work of Empire at close quarters. The wretched...
washing dirty weather dirty weekend dirty word dirty work dirty wound do someone dirty do the dirty on down and dirty filthy dirty get one's hands dirty get...
eight ships and on the deck to do the dirty work, and the other of us got into a Lufbery over the field to draw the flak away from the Colonel's flight...
/fɛʁ lə sal bu.lo/ faire le sale boulot (informal, figuratively) to do the dirty work se salir les mains mettre les mains dans le cambouis retrousser ses...
discuss. Work is a dirty word to him. (vulgar term): curse, curse word, oath, profanity word that is considered vulgar a topic that a person does not like...
is called dirty work, regardless of the synonym used (scut work, shit work) by workers themselves — either those actually engaged in the work or others...
IPA (key): /nʊŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡sɑŋ⁵¹ ʂoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ 弄髒手 Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see 弄髒 / 弄脏 (nòngzāng), 手 (shǒu). to do the dirty work...
compensation for dirty or dangerous work. 1997, Janus, page 24: The days should be long gone when workers are paid dirty money to do a risky job […] 2015...
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